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Shaping Theory and Practice: The Impact of Ignatius of Loyola’s Approach to Transformation on Transformational Leadership and Online Graduate Students at a Jesuit University in the United States

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  • Dung Q. Tran

    (Gonzaga University)

  • Michael R. Carey

    (Gonzaga University)

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Building on a previous piece that harnessed both the handbook that Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1548/1991) authored to guide his work – the Spiritual Exercises – and the account of his own transformation experience captured in the Autobiography – to appropriate the dynamics of Ignatius’ Spiritual Exercises into a series of life-affirming questions and delineate his transformation into four phases (Carey and Tran 2023), this essay continues our exploratory inquiry. Following a brief overview of the contemporary organizational leadership context, our article positions Ignatius’ insights on transformation within the transformational leadership discourse and considers his contribution to the professional formation of business leaders. Our study concludes with qualitative examples of how insights from St. Ignatius’ conversion process has encouraged online graduate students of organizational leadership in their quest to transition from profession to purpose. To further fuse theory and practice, the student reflections are categorized according to the Ignatian-inspired questions that inaugurated our theoretical inquiry and guides our pedagogical practice as organizational leadership educators.

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  • Dung Q. Tran & Michael R. Carey, 2023. "Shaping Theory and Practice: The Impact of Ignatius of Loyola’s Approach to Transformation on Transformational Leadership and Online Graduate Students at a Jesuit University in the United States," Humanistic Management Journal, Springer, vol. 8(2), pages 191-200, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:humman:v:8:y:2023:i:2:d:10.1007_s41463-023-00155-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s41463-023-00155-7
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    1. Paul Dembinski, 2011. "The Incompleteness of the Economy and Business: A Forceful Reminder," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 100(1), pages 29-40, March.
    2. Teresa J. Rothausen, 2017. "Integrating Leadership Development with Ignatian Spirituality: A Model for Designing a Spiritual Leader Development Practice," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 145(4), pages 811-829, November.
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